Just a Memory

16 Feb 2022

·Dawn

Just a Memory ... lyric Sometimes we can’t see the reasons that lie beneath and hide themselves in secrets deep pretending not to be Every morning as she rises, wide eyed smiles and exercises she is filled with optimism for each new-born day love may come and find her charming, sweetly honest and disarming everything she has to offer on the surface, clearly, open on display Sometimes we can’t see inside a person’s memory the hurts that change identity and make them long to flee When she steps outside her front door, holds her breath, undaunted once more she will never show her terror as she faces each new day only she is quite aware now, only she could ever dare now delve inside the want-to-be-her, not the way she used to be love may come and find her charming, sweetly honest, and disarming everything she has to offer on the surface and not just a memory Just a memory

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Dawn

Started writing poems at age 14, lyrics a lot later and am still doing both to my astonishment. Along the way I wrote a couple of novels and they are published by Amazon. I am gloriously happy in my marriage, after 50 years and I am relieved to say...

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